"Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness" by the Smashing Pumpkins

well hey..!

Release date early December.

Remastered vinyl features the original record spread out over 8 sides (4 LPS) for the first time to ensure the optimum sound

hahahaha holy fuck, no way would i ever listen to this behemoth but that still sounds kinda awesome

that is some enticing looking bonus material. I don't know why they keep plopping b-sides in these, they should just compile them all in the same package and be done with it.
but man, discs 3-5....just... damn. Full length "zoom"! And what on earth is "Pastichio Medley (Reversed extras)"?!

Musically, Mellon Collie solidifies Corgan's position as one of his generation's most ambitious songwriters--no one else in alternative rock's superstar stratum has attempted an album of such length, let alone scope, and it may even match The Wall in its sonic accomplishments. But his lyrics don't fare nearly as well in comparison. It may be too much to ask that Corgan be as poetic as Kurt Cobain or as earnest as Eddie Vedder, though his therapeutic self-examinations could at lest probe as deeply as Trent Reznor's. But while Waters's tale of the rock star Pink only reached the literary level of a comic book, "We don't need no education / We don't need no thought control" seems deeper, more universal, more entertaining--and heck, a lot more inspiring--than, "Living makes me sick / So sick I wish I'd die."

I don't know why they keep plopping b-sides in these, they should just compile them all in the same package and be done with it.

well, they already compiled all the Mellon Collie singles once on the Aeroplane Flies High, plus there was Pisces Iscariot, so in a way i think it makes more sense to put the era appropriate b-sides in with the album reissues instead of collecting the b-sides in yet another distinct package.

Sure but why include any of them at all, so many full length pastichio medley numbers still missing ;_;
Just feels weird to cherry pick em is all

i just want a Pistachio Medley box set, really

otm

It would be nice if they put the iTunes "rarities and bsides" thing out on cd. I think it took care of every bside and compilation track.

http://www.crestfallen.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/MCIS_bundel1-300x300.jpg

so the reissue comes out next week

http://www.smashingpumpkins.com/store/mcis-reissue/#!/175307
4LP is $75 ,uag

Mellon Collie? More like Smellin' Collie.

a tote bag! nobody has ever wanted a tote bag! carry around your trader joe's produce in this fashionable tote.

Come now, remember Billy's other big venture lately. Clearly that bag is for...

*drum roll*

Tea-Tote-ellers

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_wNJtF1XNe8Y/S13sdXNJipI/AAAAAAAABys/TaEgm_mHkYg/s400/rim-shot-.jpg

disarm me with a pun

body face and soul of you is gone down that deep black steep
aa

despite all my rage, I am still gonna print on that tote

This is by far my favourite Pumpkins album, definitely. I've always been into the excess and sprawl of it.

I bought the Gish and Siamese Dream reissues. I will buy the Pisces Iscariot reissue when I find it for a good price. '1979' is all time, but I've never liked this album. I should revisit it, though.

Weirdly, I've never been as into '1979' as others seem to be, and tend to overlook it a lot of the time in favour of other tracks. This isn't necessarily down to overplay either, because if there was any track off this album that got the hell played out of it here, it was 'Tonight, Tonight' and I still really really love that song. But I guess that's the beauty of this album, there's so much stuff on it that everybody seems to have different favourites.

Smashing Pumpkins are good at the melancholy and quiet stuff. When they rawk, it sucks horribly. Whittle this album down to the quiet stuff and you have a pretty good album. Crap like Jellybelly or whatever needs to die.

you guys have interesting opinions

Polio, do you hate 'Cherub Rock'?

1979 was the only track i ever liked, and i never liked it that much. The cover convinced me I had bought some embarrassing prog, so it was filed away in a box where its stayed.

i seriously can't imagine the life of the person who only likes the quiet smashing pumpkins songs. they probably put salt in their coffee and live in a tent in a tree

Tristessa, Cherub Rock, Frail & Bedazzled > 1979 >>>> all other quiet pumpkins

I have more than a lot of time for the quieter Smashing Pumpkins songs - 'Thirty-Three' is one in particular I find to be absolutely gorgeous, but I could never just have the Pumpkins in quiet mode and nothing else. I fucking love 'Jellybelly', fwiw!

I like 1979, but I actually like Zero better. /shameface

Every song on this album is Classic for me (OK, except Take Me Down). Can't wait to hear all the studio ephemera on the deluxe edition. This reissue is ridiculously expensive though.

rank the singles?

1979
Zero
Tonight, Tonight
Thirty-Three
BWBW

Muzzle should've been and almost was a single. Canned when Jimmy got kicked out, 33 happened instead.

http://991.com/newGallery/Smashing-Pumpkins-Muzzle-74899.jpg

yeah "Muzzle" was a moderate radio hit, definitely wish it had been given a full radio push, some days it is my fav SP song

full single push

Bullet With Butterfly Wings is great imo. The whinier the better.

I even like 'Take Me Down'. Sorry, folks!

33 > tonight > zero > 1979 > bullet

this is also probably my ranking of the individual discs in the aeroplane flies high

'Muzzle' definitely deserved to be a single, in my humble opinion.

If the world is a vampire, the narrator in Neil Young's "Vampire Blues" must be its maker. Unless the world already was a vampire in Neil Young's song. I do not know the True Blood rules for that scenario.

tonight > 1979 > bullet > zero > 33

zero > 1979 > bullet > tonight > 33 (which is still great obv)

1979 > 33 > zero. My preferences are mathematically accurate

I can think of a handful of songs that should've been kicked off of the Mellon Collie tracklist to make room for some of the b-sides instead like Pennies or Set the Ray to Jerry.

muzzle on conan early 97 is oen of my favorite band on tv performances of all time

http://vimeo.com/45282876

AND IN THE EYES OF THE JACKAL I SAY KAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-BOOM!

lol @ andy richter, melissa joan hart and james iha chillin on the couch together

compared to other horse races like "is it gonna be Mitt/The Artist? is it? it might not be! ...yep, it is" this stuff is an unpredictable thrill ride

ugh wrong thread sorry

zero > 1979 > bullet > tonight > 33 (which is still great obv)

― crüt, Tuesday, November 27, 2012 8:14 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^ gets it

"zero" feels so rigid and restrained compared to their other heavy songs